west, hawaii, california, and nevada. in the south, maryland and texas, as well as the district of columbia, and in the northeast, new york and new jersey. in 20, hawaii had the highest diversity index followed by california and nevada. you can see the diversity index for all states using our interactive tableau on diversity that we released today on our census.gov website. the next measure of diversity i will present our prevalence ranking graphs. please show the percentage of the population that falls into the largest race or ethnic group. the second largest race or ethnic group and the third largest race or ethnic group. the colors of the bars represent the different racial and ethnic groups shown in the legend. looking at the orange bars in column one, we see the white alone publish and was the most prevalent for all states. in 2020, they hispanic or latino population became the largest racial or ethnic group in california, comprising 39.4% of the total population up from 37 .6% in 2010. in 2020 we saw ships in the second most prevalent group. in west virginia, the multiracial non-hispanic population, 4.0% became the second most pre